Verpae VI - Tick 150, Cycle 6

A jump forward in time due to real life commitments, but in truth not much changed strategically in the gap.and this is the perfect point for a stock-take and an assessment of the next phase of the game.

Map

Key Stats

Top threes

Economy: Necria (114) LimitingFactor (80) A1Cypher (59)
Industry: Necria (68) A1cypher (57) Vikia (46)
Science: Necria (23) LimitingFactor/MiniMe (19)

Strategic

• The basic plan is simple, Innoble, Vik Ia and me will defeat the other three surviving players and then I assume RTQ. I'll win the game. This seems like the most likely outcome considering we have a star count advantage over them of 93-70 and I'm in an increasingly strong position.
• Each of us will now fight one opponent. Vik takes Cypher (the hardest fight) Innoble takes LimitingFactor and I take MiniMe/CRISPRs remaining territory (the easiest fight) whilst guaranteeing the other two (doing just enough in their wars to ensure they win)
• I will prepare for a situation where Innoble and Vik Ia try to put me into third place after the war and win themselves. That star count split is now 41-52 in their favour. I think this is relatively unlikely but my plan and intent is to win this game.

Diplomatic

• There isn't too much happening Diplomatically. I'm in a three way alliance and we should win the game. Vik Ia 'feels bad' for CRISPR and Innoble has some sort of NAP/working arrangement with limitingfactor that I'm keeping an eye on but In fundamentally trust both Innoble and Vik Ia, I assess the likelihood of them betraying me less than 10%.

Tactical

• I'm moving to take a key Black hole which will give me visibility of the south of Limitingfactors territory as well as far reach into MiniMe's territory. I will then need to deal with the two big CRISPR binary stars. I've got 8 specialist tokens and investing them in firepower seems wise (they cna subsequently be used to war with) I'm thinking a Colonel/Infiltrator combo for 6 tokens, giving me something in reserve. I will take each down in turn likely starting wth Anars

• When the attack on MiniMe comes it will be a hammer blow from three angles, but for now I'm consolidating CRISPR's territory. I won't do anything that indicates to MiniMe I'm about to attack him for at least another 12 ticks.